Boredom-Fueled Blog

One of the rare occasions when I actually shouted “I must blog about this!” occurred today. If you’re reading this, you’re probably a colossal Weird Al fan, so you know all about the Lady Gaga Saga. Before yesterday I had never heard Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” (Now that I have I wish I hadn’t.) Anyway, Weird Al’s parody, “Perform This Way,” sounded so familiar to me, and I listened to it repeatedly to try and figure out where I’d heard it. When, the twentieth time, singing along I instinctively sang “Save your allowance, buy a bubble dress, and some day you will go far… you ask if their refrigerator is running, then you tell ‘em they should go out and catch it.”
So. What we have here is: Weird Al parodied a song called “Waterfalls” as “Phony Calls” some fifteen years ago. Just yesterday, he released his parody of “Born This Way” called “Perform This Way.” As a die-hard Al fan, I noted the similarity between “Perform This Way” and “Phony Calls.” So… by the Transitive Property of Weird Al, I have determined that Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is a rip-off of TLC’s “Waterfalls.” Thank you.

Judge for yourself:
“Phony Calls”

“Perform This Way”

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